Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May’s statement on the new chair of the child abuse inquiry, David Cameron and Ed Miliband at PMQs, and Sir John Chilcot’s evidence to the foreign affairs committee

Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including Nick Clegg's press conference, Thomas Piketty in conversation with Stewart Wood and William Hague's Commons statement on Iraq

Did David Cameron intend to link Northern Ireland to Libya? In an attempt to reassure the Muslim world that military action against Libya is inspired by a simple desire to save lives, the prime minister harked back to a landmark declaration by British government on Northern Ireland

Robert Halfon, one of the smartest new Tory MPs, raised an intriguing parallel today. He said that the defection to Britain of Moussa Koussa, the Libyan foreign minister, by a private jet from Tunisia is on a par with the famous flight to Scotland of Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, almost exactly 70 years ago

Michael White: Unlike Thatcher with her triumphalist 'Rejoice, rejoice' in 1983, the prime minister appeared aware of the gravity of the situation as he laid out the justifications for military action in Libya